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<p>This Government is taking a series of important steps to help young people gain
a good broad education with transferable skills such as literacy and numeracy, as
well as employability skills from work experience.</p><p> </p><p>This includes our
reforms to GCSEs to ensure that they are more stretching and provide greater assurance
of core literacy and numeracy than the old GCSEs. We are also reforming Functional
Skills to improve the rigour and relevance of these qualifications as well as improving
their recognition among employers. The new Functional Skills qualifications will be
ready to teach in 2018.</p><p> </p><p>As of August 2015, the condition of funding
has been revised, so all 16-18 year old full-time students starting their study programme
who have a grade D GCSE or equivalent in maths or English must be enrolled on a GCSE
or approved IGCSE qualification in maths or English to work towards attaining a good
pass.</p><p> </p><p>We have also built English and maths into the heart of traineeships
and apprenticeships to ensure that young people have the literacy and numeracy skills
needed by employers. Our traineeship programme is supporting 16-24 year olds to gain
the skills and work experience they need to be able to compete for apprenticeships
and other jobs. In addition, all of the new employer-led apprenticeship standards
must demonstrate acquisition of transferable skills and offer more than just training
for a single job or employer. Standards must ensure that an apprentice can adapt to
a variety of roles, with different employers, developing the ability to progress in
their careers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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